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Bookmark or Share- What's living in Canaryville like? (Chicago, Bridgeport: safe ...I have been goofing around on these forums for around 5 years and there has only been one Canaryville poster I remember. I've been there a few times. Seemed nice enough. The conventional wisdom is that it's insular and a few notches below "blue collar." I've also heard the Hispanic influx is exaggerated and it's still, essentially, 5K Irish ...
- The East Coast " Swampbilly " Thread (wedding, school) - City-Data.comHillbillies from Appalachia are mostly Scotch-Irish by ancestry. Throughout modern history, Scotch-Irish people have had a strong reputation for being belligerent and disorderly. In the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the unruly ways of the Scotch-Irish were largely unwelcome by both wealthy and poor English settlers alike.
- Candace Owen's exposes Kamala Harris lied about who her grandmother was ...When McNiff was last interviewed in the Irish Echo, in 2019, it was to put people straight about Robert De Niro’s heritage, placing him a generation closer to the Irish immigrant experience than had previously been thought. Again in this recent case, other researchers before him have perhaps made missteps by not being aware of two marriages.
- Daniel-J-Devlin - User Trees - Genealogy.comThename Devlin is of Irish and Scottish origin. It is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic. O' Dobh (a)ilein (meaning the Descendant of Dobhailean, a personal name of uncertain origin,probably from a diminutive of dobhail (unlucky) (unfortunate) with a commontranslation from the Gaelic being "Descendant of the loud, or boisterous one".
- Given Names and Naming Patterns - Genealogy.comWhile certain names are popular in different areas in different times in history, the repetition could represent a pattern. Many cultures believe in honoring their elders and do so by naming children after them. Angus Baxter in "In Search of Your British and Irish Roots" describes a pattern that was popular in England in the 1700-1875 period:
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